Premarital Cohabitation and Subsequent Marital Stability in the United States: A Reassessment.

DeMaris, Alfred; Rao, K. Vaninadha

Journal of Marriage and the Family, v54 n1 p178-90 Feb 1992

Investigated relationship between cohabitation and subsequent marital dissolution among 3,300 adults in United States. Consistent with results for Sweden, found that cohabitation in United States was associated with greater hazard of dissolution even after counting time spent in unmarried cohabitation as part of marital duration. (Author/NB)